documentaries

One of the best preserved forests in the world. The persistent mist envelope impregnates the island with humidity and fosters the miraculous life in these subtropical forests that millions of years ago populated the Mediterranean area. Garajonay is home to unique flora and fauna species in the world.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutos 4K 50p

Year of production 2024

Locations: La Gomera Island (Spain)

A production of 1080

The largest patch of Mediterranean forest in the world.

The largest concentration in the world, in a single territory, of black vultures and Iberian imperial eagles, two species as unique as they are threatened.

The only place in Europe that is home to all the birds of prey typical of the Mediterranean forest and where the also highly threatened black stork has a refuge where it can escape extinction.

Home to more than 280 species of vertebrates, it has been declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.

All this makes Monfragüe a unique and fascinating environment.

The Romans called it Mons Fragorum because of its rough, abrupt and intricate terrain. Today it continues to maintain that indomitable character where an ecosystem of barely comparable biodiversity is shaken on the European continent. A landscape of mountains and extensive meadows crossed by the Tagus River and its tributary, the Tiétar, become an ideal environment for wildlife in its most varied forms, which are the protagonists of our documentary film.

Under the skies where the portentous silhouettes of the Iberian imperial eagle, the black vulture and the griffon or the black stork are silhouetted, the male Iberian deer fight tirelessly during the rut, herds of wild boar roam in search of food or the wild cat , the genet, the goshawk and the mongoose lie in wait for their next prey.

Every day, every season in Monfragüe means going into the heart of the Mediterranean forest.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutos 4K 50P

Year of production 2023

Locations: Monfragüe National Park (Spain)

A Production of 1080

Extremadura joint.

PREMIERE 2023

Being new to the game of wildlife is a constant challenge. Threats, from a hungry predator to an abusive brother or a world full of dangers to face alone without the support of parents, are constant for the rookies of many different animal species that star in our documentary in their first days of life. And it is also a time of learning, of continuous wonder, of games that strengthen them and prepare them for the adult life that awaits them.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes 4K UHD

Year of production 2022

Locations: Spain and Portugal

A production of 1080

The Bijagós archipelago is a dream destination. Above all, if what you are passionate about, as is the case with biologist Raúl León, is small life, the one that is hidden from our eyes.

Raúl leads us in search of that life hidden by a maze of 88 islands, of which only 20 are inhabited, among which the Atlantic Ocean leaves a number of sand and silt banks afloat at low tide. The Bijagós belong to Guinea Bissau, on the west African coast, and have been recognized by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve. And without a doubt they deserve it, because their ecosystem is a true natural treasure due to its diversity and abundance, as Raúl is in charge of demonstrating to us during his explorations: armored insects, fish that live out of water, amphibians capable of enduring months away from water, snakes that bite without opening their mouths... The Bijagós have a lot to offer to those who love the wildest and most hidden Nature.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutos 4K 50P

Year of production 2022

Locations: Guinea Bissau

Festivals:

Winner of the Best Scientific Television Magazine XXX Edition of the BICC International Scientific Film Biennial, SPAIN 2021.

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Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtVKb2MY78c

English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4oaynJ2uM

An abandoned mining operation in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula became a gigantic open wound in the landscape. A dead scene of rocks and cavities.

But Nature began to take over that space. Station by station, life has taken over La Jayona until it has become what it is today: a unique enclave far removed from its surroundings that has been declared a Natural Monument.

Its microclimate allows the development of unique vegetation and is a refuge for a multitude of animal species from amphibians to the almighty eagle owl. Going into La Jayona is doing it in a new buried world.

Datasheet:

Director: Javier Ortega

50 minutes 4K

Year of production 2021

Locations: Spain

A Production of 1080 and Junta de Extremadura

Festivals:

Best Nature in flight Film International Air Film Festival El Yelmo 2021 Spain

Finalist Wildlife Vaasa Festival-International Nature Film Festival 2022 Finland

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English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUHAUsMYtPc

On the beaches bathed by the Atlantic Ocean there is an island where you can see some strange footprints. They are because they should not be there since they belong to a hippopotamus, an animal that, in principle, is only found in fresh water. But those who live here are unique.

It is the only population of hippos that inhabits maritime-coastal waters and it is also the westernmost of the entire world distribution area of this mammal, related to cetaceans.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutos 4K 50P

Year of production 2020

Locations: Africa

A Production of 1080 in collaboration with Wagyu Ibérico, 3Boxmedia, Orango Parque Hotel, Ibap Bissau and CBD Hábitat

Festivals:

Winner Best Africa Film Wildlife Conservation Film festival New York (USA) 2020

Honorable Mention By the Jury Natourale (ALEMANIA) 2020 

Winner OUTSTANDING EXCELLENCE Docs Without Borders Film Festival (USA) 2021 "Island of the hippos".

Finalist XXX Edition of the BICC International Scientific Film Biennial (SPAIN-MEXICO) 2021

Finalist 26 Edición de Ventotene Film Festival (ITALY) 2021

Winner Best Nature Film Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (INDIA) 2021

Quarter-Finalist Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival (ITALY) 2021

Winner Best Wildlife Film Gangtok International Film Festival (INDIA) 2021

Semi-Finalist 11th CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum (INDIA) 2021 

WHERE TO SEE:

https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/somos-documentales/la-isla-de-los-hipopotamos/6546391/ 

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English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWouCmeSpo4

What is it that makes these people special? It is not just the fact of living in balance and harmony with the spectacular nature that surrounds them, taking from the land or the sea only what they need to survive. Nor his deep animist spirituality, which marks his life with rites with which to honor and acquire the knowledge of his ancestors.

What makes them truly unique is that, in Bijagó society, the woman is the boss.

They are the ones who make the decisions.

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Director: Raúl Bueno

50 minutos 4K 50P

Year of production 2020

Locations: Africa

A Production of 1080 in collaboration with Wagyu Ibérico, 3Boxmedia, Orango Parque Hotel, Ibap Bissau and CBD Hábitat

Festivals:

Finalist Wildlife Vaasa Festival-International Nature Film Festival 2022 Finland

Winner Best Documentary Livelihoods & Sustainable Technologies 11th CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum INDIA 2022 

Finalist Cinema and Environment Avezzano Italy 2021

Winner of the "Looks from the World" Award RAM film festival - Rovereto . Archaeology. Memories Italy 2021

Semi-Finalist 11th CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum INDIA 2021 

Winner Best Documentary Big Syn International Film Festival ENGLAND 2021

Winner Best Director Big Syn International Film Festival ENGLAND 2021

Winner Best Cinematography Big Syn International Film Festival ENGLAND 2021

Finalist Cardiff International Film Festival England 2020

Finalist Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival Italy 2020

WHERE TO SEE:

https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/queens-of-orango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8uANLdARj8

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A family of cranes crosses Europe from end to end. Along with tens of thousands of their peers, they do not hesitate to risk a long, hard and hazardous journey that will take them to a place where nature does not surrender to cold and ice.

The parents accompany their children, born somewhere in Scandinavia that same summer that has just ended, to Extremadura in one of Nature's most amazing migratory journeys.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes 4K

Year of production 2019

Locations: Finland and Spain

A production of 1080

Festivals:

Winner Special Jury Prize Wildlife Vaasa Festival-International Nature Film Festival 2022 Finland

Semi-Finalist 11th CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum INDIA 2021

WHERE TO SEE:

English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G-TMYCzCQk

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More than the tiger. Much more than the snow leopard.

The Iberian lynx is the most endangered feline on the planet.

At the beginning of this century, it was one step away from its final extinction. There were barely a hundred and fifty specimens of this beautiful and unique animal left, since it is only found in the Iberian Peninsula.

Then Saliega arrived. This female was the first to raise a litter of Iberian lynxes in captivity.

Datasheet:

Director: Javier Ortega

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2019

Locations: Spain and Portugal

A production of 1080 and Junta de Extremadura

Festivals:

Finalist XXX Edition of the International Scientific Film Biennial BICC 2021 Spain

Audience Favorite Award Nature Track Film Festival 2020 USA

Best Short Film and International Festival of Siberia "Reyes Abbades" 2019 Spain

Winner Best Wildlife Conservation 11th CMS VATAVARAN - Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum INDIA 2022.

WHERE TO SEE:

SPANISH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPwCt3p_vYw

ENGLISH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIHOKwrlts

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What is life like for horses when they live in the wild?

Answering this question is the driving force behind the scientific research project created and led by Lucy Rees, which is unique due to its characteristics in Europe.

It is located in the mountainous north of Extremadura, a region in the southwest of Spain, specifically in the Peña Negra.

And it is also the starting point of our documentary film.

Datasheet:

Director: Javier Ortega

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2018

Locations: Spain

A production of 1080 and Junta de Extremadura

Festivals:

Best Documentary I International Festival of Siberia "Reyes Abades" 2019 Spain

Best Documentary Equus Film Festival 2018 Spain

WHERE TO SEE:

HORSES TV

https://www.horse.tv/videos/wild-pottoka-horses

"The newborn island" wants to be the exciting story of a journey, with the land of ice and fire and those who inhabit it as protagonists, especially the arctic fox because it is not in vain that it is the only native land mammal. Following their adventures, we will find a multitude of species that make this island a true natural paradise, from the puffins to the arctic tern, which arrives in Iceland from the South Pole in one of the most amazing migratory flights that occur in Nature.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes 4K

Year of production 2018

Locations: Iceland

A production of 1080 and SNT

Festivals:

Best Documentary III Extrecine Spain 2019

Special Mention Vaasa Wildlife Finland 2018

Best Documentary III Cinencinedo Spain 2018

Finalist XXIX BICC Bienal Ronda Spain 2018

Finalist Matsalu Film Festival Estonia 2018

Finalist 26 Edición de Ventotene Film Festival (ITALY) 2021

Quarter-Finalist Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival ITALY 2021

WHERE TO SEE:

PRIME VIDEO AND FILM

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0U8HQPQEA2JOMNU4KC09ZTC1HD/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/islandia-la-isla-recien-nacida

The storms that herald the end of summer, the shorter days and milder temperatures trigger a natural event that will shake the forests and pastures that cover the southern tip of the European continent.

It is the bellowing of the Iberian deer. Among the thicket, the fighters finally emerge from the depths of the forest wearing their best weapons and their gallant image.

Everything about them, from their lustrous horns to their gait and the bellows they utter without rest, is proclaiming

"I'm the best!".

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2018

Locations: Spain

A production of 1080 and SNT

WHERE TO SEE:

SPANISH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK_Wc45GBpY

ENGLISH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5s1VkLLuL8

Winter in the holm and cork oak forests that cover the south of the Iberian Peninsula is far from being a time of silence and waiting for wild nature.

On the contrary, it lives an outbreak of life in which a multitude of emigrants looking for their winter paradise, some coming from the other end of the European continent, share space with the native, domestic and wild species, which populate them in an example of coexistence and sustainability.

A winter in the south is a season where life does not stop.

Datasheet:

Director: Javier Ortega

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2017

Locations: Spain and Portugal

A production of 1080

Festivals:

Finalist XXIX BICC Bienal Ronda Spain 2018

Quarter-Finalist Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival ITALY 2021

WHERE TO SEE:

SPANISH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHi6DyvYdBQ

ENGLISH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LubYF53Pgg

Spring in Jerte is undoubtedly a magical time thanks to the cherry trees. And it is also due to the rich variety of animal and plant species that share this peculiar space, which is actually a mosaic of ecosystems as varied as they are fertile, sustained by the transparent blood of the furious torrents that carve the granite looking for the bottom of the valley of the cherry trees.

Datasheet:

Director: Javier Ortega

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2017

Locations: Spain and Portugal

A production of 1080

Festivals:

Quarter-Finalist Fiorenzo Serra Film Festival ITALY 2021

WHERE TO SEE:

PRIME VIDEO AND FILM

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0HG4UPQRCKR0GHJKPNB36VELBZ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/jerte-vida-salvaje-en-el-valle-de-los-cerezos

La Dehesa is unique.

The Dehesa is fragile.

La Dehesa is magical.

No other ecosystem in Europe is as rich in biodiversity as the one that occupies a good part of the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. More than three million hectares of a singular and varied mosaic of environments that, hand in hand, century after century, human beings and Nature, as loyal allies, have been creating and sustaining together.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2016

Locations: Spain and Portugal

A production of 1080 and Junta de Extremadura

Festivals:

Best Documentary III Cinencinedo Spain 2017

Best Documentary II Extrecine Spain 2017

Nominated Best Photography Shanghai Green 2017

Special Mention Vaasa Wildlife Finland 2018

Finalist New Earth Festival Poland 2018

Finalist Green Gabes Tunisia

WHERE TO SEE:

PRIME VIDEO AND FILM

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0SP1JHH3Z34NWOD7BT6H1KBXEQ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/dehesa?origin=searcher&origin-type=primary

Extremadura, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, is the setting where our history woven of fascinating stories unfolds. It is one of the regions with the greatest biodiversity on the European continent and a true ornithological paradise that is a pioneer within the EU in the creation of Special Protection Areas for Birds (ZEPA) in its urban environments. Montagu's harriers, sapper planes, bee-eaters, orioles, jackdaws, little owls, griffon vultures, starlings, swifts, rock doves, egrets, seagulls or spoonbills are some of the other protagonists of COMING FROM HEAVEN.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2015

Locations: Spain

Festivals:

Best Director Kolkata Wildlife Festival India 2016

Best Documentary Skyfilm Festival Spain 2016

Best Documentary Cinema Fia Spain 2016

Special Mention Kolkata Wildlife India 2016

Best Documentary Green Vision Rusia 2017

WHERE TO SEE:

 YOUTUBE

ESPAÑOL:https://youtu.be/4XuARsc8o4k

ENGLISH:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKIM8K4jTY&t=541s

DEUTSCH:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g67wjLGpnBQ&t=53s

Winter has turned this forest into a mineral landscape. Dark months dominated by cold seem to have fossilized the traces of life on the skin of the Earth. It is a hard time for everyone and definitely cruel to the weakest.

But something begins to change. Although frost and fog persist, an amazing transformation is set in motion thanks to the light of increasingly long days.

The spring revolution has begun.

Datasheet:

Director: Carlos Perez

50 minutes HD

Year of production 2014

Locations: Spain and Portugal